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Does 4d6 drop the lowest correspond to a 15 point buy or a 20 point buy? What about 5d6 drop the lowest two? 2d6+6 - the "Heroic" method from the PRD?

The standard method (4d6, discard lowest die) gives results that would on average cost 19,46 ability score points if you treat results in the range 3-7 as costing -4 points. If you instead reroll results less than 7, the average cost is 20,70 points. In either case, this is pretty close to a 20 point buy.

To check this, first work out that of the 1296 different outcomes of 4d6, the number of outcomes that give a result of 3, 4, 5, ..., 16, 17 and 18 are 1, 4, 10, 21, 38, 62, 91, 122, 148, 167, 172, 160, 131, 94, 54 and 21, respectively. Then do the sums.

Grauer_Narr wrote:

EDIT: Ablative Barrier doesn't show up in the Magus list but does in the Alchemist list.

Derp. That would be my crazy brain not realizing what was wrong. Both things will get fixed up next update. Apologies for the inconvenience.

The formatting of Ablative Barrier in the Magus list is still not right. Compare lines 2278 and 2279 in http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/indices/spelllists.html .

The "Player Companion" link in the left margin on paizo.com/paizo is mildly broken; it points at http://paizo.com/pathfinder/playerCompanion, but should point at http://paizo.com/pathfinder/companion.

Mechalibur wrote:

But aren't leap days in Golarion every 8 years instead of every 4 years? Wouldn't that end up changing putting everything in Golarion back 1 day every 8 years?

If that distresses you, switch it over to every 4 years. I honestly wish that's what I'd done in the book in retrospect.

Does this wish mean there is no intentional temporal coincidence between the year 1 AR in Golarion and the year 1 of the Chinese calendar on Earth? If the days on Earth and Golarion are of equal length, the duration of 4713 Golarion years (averaging 365.125 days each) is extremely close to the duration of 4711 Earth years (averaging ca. 365.25 days each). And next week the Chinese Year 4711 of the Water Snake begins, in the continuous numbering used by Chinese Americans, according to Wikipedia.